One of the most valuable lessons and things a young driver can do coming through the ladder series – whether open-wheel, sports cars or NASCAR – is gain seat time and race experience in other formulas different from their normal disciplines.

And this weekend, a pair of Canadians fully maximized their time in other series.

In IMSA’s Ultra 94 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada Presented by Michelin, Scott Hargrove managed to win both of the series’ first two races at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, outside Toronto.

The even more impressive part? Hargrove, the 19-year-old from Surrey, British Columbia, who is the 2013 USF2000 champion and current driver for Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing in Pro Mazda, hadn’t so much as driven a sports car, ever, before this weekend. He was in a one-off entry in the No. 69 OpenRoad car.

“Two races, two wins,” Hargrove said, via IMSA.com. “I can’t ask for more than that. It’s phenomenal racing in these Porsche cars, and I can’t thank the OpenRoad guys enough for giving me a good car and being able to run up front all weekend. A phenomenal weekend for us, and hopefully we will be back and be able to run more races this year.”

After going two-for-two last weekend in Pro Mazda at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis, Hargrove now has four race wins in two weekends. He and Pro Mazda teammate Neil Alberico put together a race compilation of their Indy races as “Mario Kart.”

Meanwhile at another picturesque road course, this time in the Finger Lakes region of New York at Watkins Glen International, USF2000 driver Daniel Burkett did something other than putting on a hot dog suit in his quest for sponsorship: he won both Atlantic Championship Series races, to extend his winning streak to four wins in as many starts this season.

“Coming in here I knew it would be more difficult than Road Atlanta, we would have to be on our game. We knew Jimmy (Simpson) would be fast here with his past experience,” said the Winnipeg native, who drives for Belardi Auto Racing in USF2000.

These two weren’t alone in making headlines. Hargrove’s Pro Mazda sparring partner Spencer Pigot, who won the first four races of that season, finished sixth and third in the two Porsche races. Pigot is able to run a full season in both championships – he’ll be with Alegra Motorsports in the Porsche series – due to a favorable schedule of no conflicts. Pigot first ran a Porsche at the 2012 Porsche Young Driver Academy at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala.

Mazda Road to Indy alumnus Jason Wolfe, who raced in USF2000 last year, also had a big weekend at CTMP winning two of the three Pirelli World Challenge Championships races in the Touring Car A category, driving a Kia Forte Koup. Wolfe now leads that class’ points standings. Other PWC CTMP winners were Michael DiMeo, who swept the Touring Car triple header, with Ernie Francis Jr. taking the other TCA win, and Brian Price (2 wins) and Nathan Stacy (1 win) winning in TCB. Stacy, 14, becomes the youngest winner in series history and eclipses, ironically, Francis Jr., who achieved the feat as a 15-year-old in TCB in 2013.

Hargrove, Pigot and Burkett will be back in action this weekend as the Mazda Road to Indy heads to Lucas Oil Raceway in Clermont, Ind., where Pro Mazda and USF2000 race their first oval event of the season in the “Night Before the 500.”